Jukai Messenger

Evasion that lives or dies by the defending player's manabase is the oldest gamble in green's toolkit, and forestwalk is its narrowest bet. Against a Forest-heavy deck, this body simply cannot be stopped; against anyone else, it is a plain 1/1 with nothing else to recommend it. That conditional unblockability is the whole design pitch, and it explains why landwalk has always read as a bet on the opponent's colors: the keyword only matters when the table happens to be running the right lands. There is nothing else on the card to widen that window, no activated ability, no body worth the green pip on its own, just a single point of evasion whose relevance is decided by the opponent's land choices rather than the pilot's own play. Green has historically tied its landwalk to its color identity, and a green creature with forestwalk is the most on-the-nose version of that: it slips past the mirror and the decks most likely to share its colors, then stalls out completely against the very strategies (artifacts, control, anything off the green axis) you would most want to punch through. It is a creature built for a metagame guess, and the guess is one the pilot does not get to make.